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The Money Language Series
Ten pieces that teach a technology leader the language the finance side already speaks — capital versus operating cost, and the decisions that sit on top of it.
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Why this series exists
The decisions that shape an engineering organization are argued in finance’s vocabulary: what gets capitalised, what a chip is worth after its useful life, where a workload is placed, and what the board’s arithmetic says about headcount. A technology leader who cannot speak that language is negotiating in translation.
How it reads
Each part stands on its own; read in order they are one argument. It is declared as a set in the catalog, so every part carries its number and links to the others.
The ten parts
- CapEx, OpEx, and EBITDA: The Same Dollar, Two Different StoriesPart 1
- Reading the Financials: The Primer for Everyone Who Never Had To CarePart 2
- Capitalize or Expense: Your Jira Board Is Now Audit EvidencePart 3
- Depreciation and Useful Life: The Chip Outlives Its EconomicsPart 4
- Placement Economics: The Right Answer, Applied EverywherePart 5
- Lift-and-Shift or Re-Architect: The Two That Modernized LaterPart 6
- Vendor Economics: The Email in NovemberPart 7
- AI Spend: Three Budgets Pretending to Be OnePart 8
- AI and Headcount: Somebody on the Board Did the ArithmeticPart 9
- Outsourcing After Section 174A: Eleven Months to Relearn ItPart 10